I have $5,000 right now for long term survival food. What do i get???

Raw Natural Honey and Bee Pollen Pellets, Australian is the most nutritious. Both are superfoods that last forever and can sustain a human for just as long.

Grow shelling peas, you can freeze or can them if you don't eat them fresh. Everyone says to get staples like wheat berries, rice, and beans, but get tuna, boneless sardines, and honey too, they last forever, and have tons of nutritional value.

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If I was just starting to prep today with the world about to?

First do this
Your pantry for as many months as you think. Ours is a year+
Add canned meat flour rice and beans pasta to extend meals. about a 100 pounds of each.


Basic food long term storage

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From here pick it up, way cheaper only 2 in CA have food to sell both in SoCal the other 7 have no product. Main storehouse is out of wheat!!! My local has limited qtys last week
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It will cost ya apx. $1000 per person for apx 500,000 or 1500 calories a day.
You need a lot of extras to get to a 500 calorie meal.

I got a lot of Augason Farms, do the entree's many have real meat from .50 to $4 a serving.
morning moo butter powder buckets of bread biscuit and pancake veg stew cheese cheese powder TVP

Found this today some good prices on FD food
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Whole wheat barley oat ground into flour a pound makes one loaf of bread so 50 LBS for one loaf a week for one year, I did 100 per person.
Some feed store triple washed, some store bought and froze and mylar bag w 02 absorbers and 100-150 LBs in a 27 gal tote
Some in #10 cans.

Garden root crops got my spuds a few weeks ago

what would you need if there wasn't restaurants or grocery stores.
store it, grow it, or barter

You need enough stored food and water to stay at home for up to 30 days while the chaos subsides a little.

Buy tradeable items like womens hygiene, sugar, coffee, tobacco.

Hide them and make your home look run down
Plant potatoes everywhere you can - most don't know what the top plant looks like. Plant haphazardly, a nice vegetable garden will last less than minutes.

You will need a protein source to go with the potatoes. You can forage this or grow beans, butternut squash ot other protein rich Plant.

Bug out bag per person.
Bug out location, meet point, secret message location.
Comms
'Gray man' outfit.
Generators, lights, food smells could get you killed so be prepared to lay low and quiet for a while.

May the force be with you...

Many lighters and some rubbing alcohol.

U not going to make it in SHTF

Can't eat this, can't eat that...
You were never hungry in your life
U will die

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Date a Mormon girl and they will set you right up.
Bishops pantry.
Use her brothers as labor in the garden.
Have a Chad friend for her to run off with, so her family still likes you.

Tanks for da tip.

Also get the book "Dare To Prepare" by Holly Deyo. It'll tell you what to really do.

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Did that last yr kinda got a AR10s and a Tavor7 optics and lots of food for them also all the reloading dyes tools primers brass and match grade $5k +.

tons of popcorn. trust me

you might consider the company 'ancestral supplements' - they have various beef organs in capsules, very long shelf life (over 20 yrs)

they are a little pricey - but you can inquire about getting a bulk discount (don't order from amazon in that case)

beef organs are about the most nutritionally dense food in existence

Hot pocket seeds and a big box of miracle grow.

You just need bulk calories and basic vitamins, nothing too complicated. Get some cheap costco or wal-mart multivitamins and then lots of what you will be able to eat without electricity.

If you won't have access to the ability to heat food you'll need entirely different preps.. think bulk oats and tubs of crisco or these survival bars...

72000 calories with a 5+ year shelf life isn't bad for $130... yes it's mostly palm oil and starch but it will keep you alive and they taste pretty good actually.

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Don't forget water filters. I would get some micron mesh filters like the katadyne pocket filter and get some coffee filters as a pre-filter. Anything that is rated for a high number of gallons with washable filters.

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How much $$$ you got to spend on cooking gear? Got a gas stove or camping cookstove? A couple camp cookstoves, 2 burner propane jobs, with several bulk tanks and a splitter and 2 bulk adapter hoses will keep you cooking for a while.

This is the First priority, being able to cook and have access to a non-utility clean water supply.

A pressure cooker of 4-8qts will conserve your gas and get your food done in less time. Minerals and vitamins don't evaporate if you use a pressure cooker.

Organic, short-grained, brown rice is the #1 food for its health properties and ability to combine with nearly every kind of dried brean to make a Complete Protein. Beans and Brown Rice are staples for most peasant class the world over.

Pasta stores very good. If you own a decent size generator, like 5kw max output, you can keep a freezer going. Best use of a generator is with a battery and inverter. Those aren't cheap, but they enable you to run the genset an hour or so each day to charge your battery. Nice to have a large inverter of 4kw or larger to run your household lights, clothes washer and other needs. Spendy, but worth it if you can find the gear. Suggest reviewing HomePower magazine anthology for more info.

If freezing meat, best to use a good vacuum packer and re-pack your purchases very promptly. A full freezer is uses less electricity than one half full. Running your freezer for 5-8 hrs daily will keep your food just fine. Be sure your freezer is located in a cool place, away or shielded from direct sunlight. Covering the freezer with a quilt or blanket also enables better performance.

Still got money? Whole grains are best for storage; probably want a grain mill. Electric is fast, does about 25lbs of wheat etc on a flour setting in 20-30 minutes. Store your grain in 5gal buckets with gasket lids. Can use CO2/dry ice chips to remove the air...

Break dry ice brick into chips with a towel or pillow case. Have all your grain ready to go. Fill bucket with 1/4 grain, put 7 chips about thumbnail size on top, add another 1/4 adding same chips etc. When bucket is full, lay last layer of chips and cover with gasket lid. WAIT 45 minutes for the dry ice to gassify and replace the oxygen in the bucket. Seal lid with hammer. Don't forget to label the contents. In 2011 or so, we opened a Brown Rice bucket filled 14yrs earlier and the rice was perfect!

Grains: Brown Rice, Hard Red Winter Wheat, Golden Wheat, Black Beans, Sm Red Beans, Adzuki Beans, Anasazi Beans. Bean Assortments for soups and also grinding for flour.

The Costco brand Olive Oil, not virgin, stores great and is high quality. Butter freezes well. Need oils for cooking for sure. Also probably want to store some Pure Can Sugar, and other sweeteners. Eggs store pretty well outside the fridge.

Canned beans, soups, lots of varios seasonings, Peanut butter, honey, jelly. A bread machine for mixing bread/pizza dough. Cheese freezes well. Probably want some soupbase for adding taste to soups.

Canned meats, especially chicken, ham, even spam stores great. I opened a 20+ yr old Swanson's Chicken can a few weeks back for a sandwich and it was great!

Got cool storage anywhere in your house? Storage area not dependent on A/C? That's where you want to keep your food.

Got a Water Filter? We have used a Katadyn 3gal reservoir drip filter for 20yrs. Have to clean the filter-candles every year or 15mos, but our well water is pretty clean. Always pre-filter raw water to get as clean as possible for your filters to last.

I'm going to give you very simple advice.

Get two grain mills (electric and hand operated both)

Go to rainydayfoods.com or waltonfeed.com.

Buy 5 gal superpails of whichever grains you normally use. They will be in food grade buckets in aluminized mylar with oxygen absorber. Good for 30 years.

Get wheat, rice, oats, popcorn, dried corn for cornmeal, beans, etc. Wheat and white rice will be good for 30 years, the others not as long.

Get dehydrated vegies (carrots, potatoes, broccoli, etc.)

Get freeze dried meats and berries.

You are just starting out. Get canning jars and make jams, pickles and tomato sauce. Don't try to pressure can things like meat until you have some experience.

GET YOUR GARDEN IN NOW!!!

Chunky soup and Mountain House pouches

Simple... 5 Grand worth of A1 sauce.

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Honestly I do not think you are going to need food in long term storage, I think we will be eating it by the end of the year.
Unless you already have a year or two of what you eat with basics to extend!

Store bought canned and dry goods are way cheaper flour rice beans oats 50 cents a pound or apx .10 a serving, Half the cost of even LDS rice beans and pasta $1 a pound or and they are a quarter of what the others charge like $100 for 25# bucket.

For the freeze dried my y2k still have about a decade of shelf life and I have to toss a few hundred $ of bagged basic food.
gotta go

Things that can be stored for 10 years.

At this point I would say a boyfriend or girlfriend that has already prepared?

Re: Gardening...

Costs a pretty large sum to begin gardening. Anything over 20'x20', you'll wish you had a tiller. Takes a shitload of work and products to turn a lawn or pasture/field into a suitable bed of organic loam to grow decent veges.

Here's the thing: I would bet that with inflation and demand prices for good soil, peat moss, other additives, insects and worms, you can spend a thousand or more. The TIME you'll spend is irreplaceable. Costco sells Organic Tomato products by the case and used to sell Lundberg Farms' Organic Brown Rice.

At this time, so late in the game, BUY everything you can so you have it. A garden attracts animals, pests and thieves. Plus is no guarantee of a harvest. like Fishing is to Catching....

Buying canned foods of all types enables you to transport or even trade. Raw foods, home grown? Who knows if the grower used Miraclegrow? That shit will damage you if you eat anything grown with it.


I've opened a lot of old canned goods. As long as the cans weren't rusted out, they were fine. Did a caciatore with a #10 can of Costco tomato chunks. Can was over 10yrs old. The dinner was great and the can was not in pristine condition.

Time is one thing none of us have a surplus of. Might think about buying indoor grow lights and doing a large tray of Wheatgrass; and doing alfalfa & mung bean sprouts.

Can buy most grains at local feed store. Just be sure they aren't "treated" so they're okay for human & animal consumption.

I would not waste time gardening this Summer. Maybe buy the seeds and gear you'll need. Good idea to begin composting so you can build soil. Maybe plant a cover crop like beneficial clover. Might also think about ways you can save your grey water for a garden, or capture it from your roof (assuming you don't have petroleum shingles).


If you live in a city, you need to figure out how to get water and to dispose of your human waste. An outhouse or a hole works pretty good. You want to have some some lime to enable rapid breakdown of the solids. No outhouse near any wells...

Need to keep your cans, and empty jugs and bottles. They'll be valuable in many ways.


I would not try to rely on a garden, but get what you need for next year, including mason jars & lids plus a big pressure cooker for canning. Get a spare gasket set for the pressure cooker.

To make $$$ go furthest, start haunting the resales & pawnshops. Make your money go as far as you can. So much at thrifts etc is in almost brand new condition. $5 jeans, $1 T-shirts, cheap kitchenware and tools. Worth a look...

You'll get half what you could have in February buying now. Only buy the shit that you KNOW you like though.

The answer to this depends a lot on where you are at and the amount of knowledge/skill you have.

I personally would use the 5K to put in a semi-underground sunken greenhouse, buy a dozen hens and a rooster, and a pair of milk goats or a jersey cow, gutters for rain collection and a water storage container - but I'd know what to do with them.

High nutrient-density, easy-to-grow foods are: beets, cabbage, turnips, chard, kale, carrots, onions, garlic, comfrey -> (chicken food).

In some places potatoes and beans and corn grow well and can provide carbohydrates.

Along with milk and eggs and occasional meat, you'd be set long term, not just for one dark winter.

Do not buy the premade in a bucket stuff!
MAKE YOUR OWN..

Get a dehydrator and a good vacuum sealer.. one that will vacuum seal jars is an awesome bonus..

But things like rice and beans.. oatmeal etc...

if you are making for 1 or for 4 just do the math..

1/4 c rice per person
1/4 c beans per person

dehydrate your veggies 1/4c per person

add seasonings and/or a bullion..

place all in a vacuum seal bag and seal shut

oatmeal and dehydrated fruits- place enough per person in a vacuum seal bag and seal shut

dehydrate fresh fruits and veggies and vacuum seal

dehydrate fresh fruits and veggies- grind them to powders that you can add to smoothies, drinks, broth, and season meats with.. get some canning equipment as well..

Why are you asking here? There are plenty of websites run by very knowledgeable people.